Somatic Coaching and Therapy
Your Body is a great source of wisdom
Do you feel distant, lost, confused, or unmotivated?
The distance we live from our body is the distance we live from our self and from our emotional reality.
In a socially manufactured society, separation from spirit and our own biology, the capacity for us to feel and sense what is happening has been lost. When we spend our free time in our devices, or feeding our souls with drugs, alcohol, food or our soothing mechanism of choice, we continue to separate ourselves from our bodies and innate wisdom.
What does Somatic mean?
Somatic comes from the route body.
Somatosensory is relating to a sensation (such as pressure, pain, or warmth) that can occur anywhere in the body, in contrast to one localized at a sense organ (such as sight, balance, or taste).
Somatic-based practitioners recognize that the body as an untapped resource. Your body has been through your whole life with you. Some of the experiences have brought you pleasure, some pain, and a whole host of feelings in between.
By working directly with the body, we are connecting sensations and symptoms to psychic processes that help to explore unwanted patterns, change or reset one’s nervous system, and heal us at a cellular level. We can then notice mindfully the shifts that will be in service to our lives and shed the things that are no longer serving us.
The Process
At the core of our being, there is an indestructible tender soft spot – a place of knowing that has always been there.
We are all born with innate goodness.
It is life and events that can get in the way of our happiness and present situations that cause us to react or feel threatened in
small or big ways.
We instinctively need to protect that tender soft spot, and we do this by building up a protective layer around us that leaves us feeling disconnected from our inner resources and greatest wisdom. We live our lives predominantly on an unconscious
and habitual level.
Because we live unconsciously, we forget that safety is found in our innate and intuitive nature to be compassionate – the only sure thing we have right now is the present moment. Where has our openness to possibility gone?
I offer you my presence, experience, and skills with an open heart.
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What causes us to feel overwhelmed?
Overworking can cause us to feel disconnected and regimented, while major or even minor accidents can wake us up to how we're feeling and stop us in our tracks.
Illness can also lead to feelings of lethargy and being stuck. When we don't involve the body in the healing process, the patterns we've created remain.
As a somatic coach and therapist, my aim is to help you develop ways of knowing, thinking, perceiving, and acting that promote openness and responsiveness to your life.
My approach integrates cognitive techniques and verbal dialogue with mindful awareness and exploration of bodily sensations, feelings, and actions.
Our goal is to stabilize the reactive mind and disentangle defensive patterns that arise when we feel unsafe.
Requirements for Somatic Coaching
and Therapy
Therapists require a Master’s degree, Internship (pre- and postgraduate internship), and some form of license to practice.
Coaches don’t have the same licensing or degree process, and each of them find their way to a niche that led them to coach the group of people they serve.
I see myself as a mind/body therapist and coach.
I have the equivalent of two Master’s Degrees, and years of specialized training in therapeutic body based modalities.
I facilitate a process that has been honed through time, somatic training, and have sifted through the best tools to create a process that works best for my clients. The process of somatic coaching involves the subtle body, energy, and a depth of awareness, very similar to my learning as a Therapeutic Yoga Teacher for Phoenix Rising.